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In the 8th millennium BC, agriculture becomes widely practiced in the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia. Pottery becomes widespread (with independent development in Central America) and animal husbandry (pastoralism) spreads to Africa and Eurasia. World population is at a few million, maybe 5 million people.
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c. 8000 BC – Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest Turkey are established.
c. 8000 BC – Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established.
c. 8000 BC – Settlements at Ærø, Denmark are established.
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Environmental changes
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Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Huts, hearths, granaries, and nonportable stone tools for grinding grains Africa
Catal Huyuk, men wear animals skins, evidently pink leopard skin, plus hats of the same material Asia
Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone—and most remarkably—bone flutes China
City located in Anatolia, or modern day Turkey where a number of artifacts appear to support evidence for the widespread practice of Goddess worship
Clay and plaster are molded to form statues at Jericho and cAin Ghazal Mediterranean
First evidence for this with incised "counting tokens" about 9,000 years ago in the neolithic fertile crescent. Asia
Japanese potters begin around this time to decorate pottery cooking vessels Japan
Simple pottery traditions sometimes with cord impressions or other decorative markings Korea
Chinese in this village Jiahu already had established a village life. Parts of the city were devoted to different functions China
Chinese were accomplished musicians and craftspeople the Jiahu site China
Evidence of wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggests that a food-producing economy is adopted in Aegean Greece
Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece, attests to the earliest deliberate burials in Greece
North Sea: North Sea bottoms are largely dry land before this period. England
Archaic Period; Native Americans move seasonally around Vermont to live, hunt, gather, and fish
Pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology Mexico
Off the main road connecting the capital to Cuernavaca, stands a circular step pyramid of great complexity Mexico City
Glacial activity creates Champlain Sea; Paleo-Indians explore and hunt in Vermont
World - Between 12,000 BC and 5,000 BC it appears that massive inland flooding was taking place in several regions of the world, making for subsequent sea level rises which could be relatively abrupt for many worldwide
Northern Europe - Women supposedly developed blonde ("blond" for males) hair and blue eyes to allure or attract scarce population of males due to conditions in the north (The Sunday Times, 26 February 2006 )
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Cultural landmarks
7193 BC–According to Korean legend, an alliance of northern Altaic tribes under a "Huan" (Hun) ruler predates the establishment of China.
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Fiction and myth
The Ancients (Alterans) of the fictional Stargate universe submerge Atlantis following a losing war with the Wraith species, closely matching the supposed date of the mythical city.
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